The Romance of the Three Kingdoms describes the history of nearly a hundred years from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the beginning of the Western Jin Dynasty, mainly describing the war, telling the story of the warlord melee in the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the political and military struggle between Wei, Shu and Wu, and finally Sima Yan unified the three countries and established the Jin Dynasty. It reflected the transformation of various social struggles and contradictions during the Three Kingdoms period and created a group of heroes of the Three Kingdoms.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms, one of China's classical Four Great Classical Novels, is China's first chapter-by-chapter historical romance novel. Its full name is Popular Romance of the Three Kingdoms (also known as Romance of the Three Kingdoms), written by Luo Guanzhong, a famous novelist in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the first historical novel and the first literati novel.

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The content of the novel is based on the history of Wei, Shu and Wu in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. The story about the Three Kingdoms has been circulated among the people for a long time. There is a phrase in Li Shangyin's "Pride Poem" that "teases Zhang or laughs at Deng Ai to eat", which shows that the story of the Three Kingdoms has been talked about by the people at the latest in the late Tang Dynasty. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the story of the Three Kingdoms was even brought to the stage by folk artists.

From the "Three Points" in the Northern Song Dynasty to the numerous dramas of the Three Kingdoms in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, and the emergence of Pinghua, a novel with the story of the Three Kingdoms as the theme, all laid the creative foundation for the emergence of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

On the basis of folklore, scripts, operas and commentaries created by folk artists, Luo Guanzhong created the famous classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms by using Chen Shou's The History of the Three Kingdoms and the official historical materials annotated by Pei Songzhi, combined with his rich life experience.

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